Hi, Carl - thanks.
Never thought about that, but you're right - I can just drive trains over to the workbench and lift them off for service and then back on again ! 
I have to provide power to the liftout, plus about 60' of track and a couple FT switches past the liftout (4 more power drops) and the power is coming from a transformer and distribution block that is another 15' away from the liftout on the main layout side and I was concerned about voltage (and possibly command signal) loss and figured I would have less power loss if I split the 5 drops between three wire pairs each coming from a separate distribution panel block as opposed to just running one wire and tapping it for all 5 drops. I could be wrong, but that's how I figured it and it wasn't that much more effort to run the three wire pairs.
The real Anderson crimper tool is great, especially if you're doing a lot of connectors, but it's a little pricey and I've done so much soldering over the years it's easy for me. I knew some guys who used to crimp and solder !
